COVID-19 fears spark record number of US gun sales

Semi-Automatic handguns are displayed at a US sport shop.

Semi-Automatic handguns are displayed at a US sport shop. Source: AP

There are growing fears of civil unrest amid the coronavirus crisis in the United States, after a record of more than two million guns sold in the month of March alone.


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